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dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 1d

See also "Guns, Germs and Steel" which has an entire section of the /r/askhistorians subreddit FAQ about the damage it's done www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 6d

There is something really beautiful about the way these rapid response and school watch networks are connecting people. Earlier today, my neighbor a few houses down and I realized we had been in the same group chat for weeks without even knowing it.

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dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 6d

There is something really beautiful about the way these rapid response and school watch networks are connecting people. Earlier today, my neighbor a few houses down and I realized we had been in the same group chat for weeks without even knowing it.

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dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 6d

I saw a rapid response alert of an ICE vehicle in my neighborhood and went to the intersection about 20 minutes after it was first posted. By the time I got there, they were gone and in their place were at least three different locals in their cars, on stand by for when they came back.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

As y'all have probably heard, there has been a lot of ICE activity on the North Side of Chicago today. At least four people were kidnapped by ICE in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Folks mobilized throughout the day to do ICE Watch and Rapid Response work.

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dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 7d

pro tip: Rico Fresh has a very solid taco stand inside.

Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 7d

After federal agents smoke bombed a Logan Square street, area businesses are reporting slow sales and "fear in the air." blockclubchi.co/4h3k3tt

dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 7d

This is a good sound bite and all but also worth noting that while this interview was happening real people were being detained and kidnapped a few miles away where citizens were actually forcing feds to 'come through' them. Maybe start spending time there, gov?

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 8d

Looking to speak with families with young children in Chicago for a story on how the ICE raids are impacting them. Reach out to [email protected], if you're interested.

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dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 9d

my bubbe does this too but more as a depression era childhood thing

dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 9d

5. Impede vehicles, make noise, record video, and otherwise actively resist and throw sand in the works. You've seen the videos: they are inspiring people at all levels.

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dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 9d

4. Join existing mutual aid networks in droves, with tons of people looking for ways to support families that do not feel comfortable doing normal errands. Our area has multiple MA networks from Covid, and this infrastructure is expanding to meet this new crisis.

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dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 9d

3. Form rapid response networks of all kinds across all sorts of platforms, to immediately circulate word of 🧊 movements. Our neighborhood FB group had multiple posts every hour over the weekend from people working to circulate information.

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dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 9d

2. Attend KYR trainings and distribute documents in huge numbers. Multiple local groups report that they've already run out of printed materials, the demand is so high.

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dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 9d

Here are 5 impactful things I've seen people in my part of Chicago do in the last week: 🧵

1. Organize groups to attend school pickups and drop-offs to help vulnerable families feel more secure. I've seen neighbors with no prior organizing experience line up to take part in these efforts.

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dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 10d

We took a trip to San Diego recently and driving through the beautiful hillside communities near La Jolla, my three year kept saying “this is bluey land”

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dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 12d

Can confirm. Just saw a truck going down wrightwood towards the Square basically surrounded by local drivers working to slow them down.

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 12d

Yep! My friend was telling me her relatives saw them recently in another street in Logan Sq. They’re everywhere in the northwest side today.

Josephine Maria Yanasak-Leszczynski @jmyales.bsky.social · 12d

ICE is currently on the run all over Logan Square/Humboldt Park btw. Anywhere they go, hoards neighborhoods are finding them.

dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 12d

if I find any room for optimism given what's happening in Logan Square and surrounding neighborhoods today, it's the endless posts on all the various area parenting and other facebook groups looking for ways to help and get involved.

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dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 12d

A friend of mine was present at this. He described it as a bunch of passersbys noticing the ice vehicle and spontaneously attempting to impede its progress. Not an organized protest or coordinated rapid response or anything, just neighbors resisting.

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dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 12d

A friend of mine was present at this. He described it as a bunch of passersbys noticing the ice vehicle and spontaneously attempting to impede its progress. Not an organized protest or coordinated rapid response or anything, just neighbors resisting.

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dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 12d

video form outside rico fresh (directly next to an elementary school too)

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dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 12d

here's a video of that happening www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

From the LoganSquare community on Reddit: ICE incident at Rico Fresh

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dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 12d

Video of ICE just casually tossing tear gas canisters into a grocery store parking lot

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dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 12d

a friend of mine just joined a spontaneous group of people in an attempt to block an ice vehicle on armitage and central park, and they lobbed a tear gas canister at them

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 15d

and anyone who sports a combination of oakley sunglasses and a goatee in any context

dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 16d

this is grim

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